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April 30, 2009 7:57 AM PDT

Crate and Barrel gets saucy

by Jennifer Lowell
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Hope you like the lid: the brush is permanently attached to it.

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If I were to point to the location where my love for clean spaces and my hunger for tasty foods meet in vicious opposition, it would be the outdoor grill. Understandably, backyard barbecues are occasions that I have to ignore the compulsion to keep things spotless. And sometimes, when I host one, my guests have to practically beg me to stop cleaning. But, in summer, nothing tops an ice-cold beverage and a freshly grilled burger, so I can appreciate any gadget that prevents even a little bit of the mess usually associated with grilling outside.

Enter this sauce pot from Crate and Barrel. By permanently affixing the basting brush to the lid, it reduces the chance that your barbecue sauce misses your burger and ends up on your picnic table. It also protects your sauce from ants, flies, and dirt, and keeps your brush fully loaded and ready for use. The brush is made of easy-to-clean silicone, although you may want to hand wash it, as it is permanently attached to the lid.

The sauce pot with its integrated brush is available for $24.95 on Crate and Barrel's Web site.

January 6, 2009 4:01 PM PST

Eat your (pancake) heart out

by Daren Darrow
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Heart in heart pancake mold

The heart in heart pancake mold brings love to the breakfast table.

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Just in time for Valentine's Day, Crate and Barrel has released a slew of gadgets to help you give your sweetie something delicious.

You can give your significant other a stack of perfectly shaped heart pancakes. You can create two sizes of hearts at once, or leave the middle of the pancake open to hold fruit or other treats.

If you want a fancier design, you can buy the scalloped heart mold. Both are nonstick and have handles to help keep your fingers safe. However, they are not dishwasher safe. Bummer; I guess that's more work for someone on Valentine's Day.

Scalloped heart pancake mold

A scalloped heart pancake mold is kind of fancy, right?

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Valentine's Day cupcake stencils

Valentine's Day cupcake stencils are great for an afternoon delight. Get it?

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If you're not a morning person--or just won't wake up to make pancakes--you could bake some cupcakes for your sweetie. Crate and Barrel followed up its holiday cupcake stencils with a Valentine's version. The stencils help you create flawless decorations on your baked treats. They're $4.95 for a set of six 4-inch stencils.

June 24, 2008 2:25 PM PDT

An opener for every occasion

by Thursday Bram
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6-Way Opener

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I have one opener for bottles and another for jars. Even still, there are plenty of items that I can't open in my kitchen without resorting to all sorts of desperate maneuvers in my attempts to remove packaging. I've used scissors, knives, and even tin snips to get at my food.

Crate & Barrel's 6-Way Opener has just about every tool I could need for opening packaging (excluding the tin snips), though. With it, I can clear out all those different openers and use just one item to get into jars, bottles, and more.

The 6-Way Opener was designed with a variety of common types of packaging in mind: bottle tops, pull tabs, safety seals, jar lids, and snack bags are all considered proper usage for this opener. It's dishwasher safe, too, saving me from the worries of whether I really got everything off my jar opener when I spilled half a jar of sauce all over.

Best of all, the grip is plastic and silicone. For those of us without especially strong grips, this opener is ideal for making sure that we have the leverage to get into jars and the like, without hurting our hands.

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